We might as well give them our verbal reports, just in case Hawks and Barker L had lost contact with us before we came out. Like any wise ruler, Abbot Arkos did not issue orders vainly, when to disobey was possible and to enforce was not possible. She was a she-banth, but she was beautiful. There were rams-horn snails with red skin, and small fish darting like swallows in the shadowy cathedrals made by the weeds. Cooter and the two-car eastern element had an even longer track to follow to their hide. Twenty minutes later I needed a refill on my Coke, and we knew what we wanted.
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